Re: Question about pg_dump

At 16:53 13/10/00 -0200, Vilson farias wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I started testing pg_dump and I have a little question :
>
>What does pg_dump with data arrived while its running?
>

pg_dump runs in a single transaction, so in theory it dumps a consistent
view of the data, not necessarily the absolute latest data.


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